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To be able to be caught up into the world of thought-that is educated.
Edith Hamilton
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Edith Hamilton
Age: 95 †
Born: 1867
Born: August 12
Died: 1963
Died: May 31
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There is a field where all wonderful perfections of microscope and telescope fail, all exquisite niceties of weights and measures, as well as that which is behind them, the keen and driving power of the mind. No facts however indubitably detected, no effort of reason however magnificently maintained, can prove that Bach's music is beautiful.
Edith Hamilton
Freedom was born in Greece because there men limited their own freedom. ... The limits to action established by law were a mere nothing compared to the limits established by a man's free choice.
Edith Hamilton
Reality has actually very little to do with truth there is no necessary connection between the two.
Edith Hamilton
He was there beside her, yet she was far away from him, aone with her outraged love and her ruined life.
Edith Hamilton
Myths are early science, the result of men's first trying to explain what they saw around them.
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One form of religion perpetually gives way to another if religion did not change it would be dead. ... Each time the new ideas appear they are seen at first as a deadly foe threatening to make religion perish from the earth but in the end there is a deeper insight and a better life with ancient follies and prejudices gone.
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sooner or later, if the activity of the mind is restricted anywhere it will cease to function even where it is allowed to be free.
Edith Hamilton
Faith is not belief. Belief is passive. Faith is active.
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..,No love cannot leave where there is no trust..,~cupid and psyche..,Greek mythology of Edith Hamilton
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The suffering of a soul that can suffer greatly -- that and only that, is tragedy.
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Love, however, cannot be forbidden. The more that flame is covered up, the hotter it burns. Also love can always find a way. It was impossible that these two whose hearts were on fire should be kept apart. (Pyramus and Thisbe)
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The Old Testament is the record of men's conviction that God speaks directly to men.
Edith Hamilton
Uncertainty is the prerequisite to gaining knowledge and frequently the result as well.
Edith Hamilton
I came to the Greeks early, and I found answers in them. Greece's great men let all their acts turn on the immortality of the soul. We don't really act as if we believed in the soul's immortality and that's why we are where we are today.
Edith Hamilton
A tendency to exaggeration was a Roman trait.
Edith Hamilton
There are few efforts more conducive to humility than that of the translator trying to communicate an incommunicable beauty. Yet, unless we do try, something unique and never surpassed will cease to exist except in the libraries of a few inquisitive book lovers.
Edith Hamilton
Ages of faith and of unbelief are always said to mark the course of history.
Edith Hamilton
Moderately wise each one should be, Not overwise, for a wise man's heart Is seldom glad (Norse Wisdom)
Edith Hamilton
Christ must be rediscovered perpetually.
Edith Hamilton
The easy way has never in the long run commanded the allegiance of mankind.
Edith Hamilton
